January 2010

Yesterday provided an interesting cross-section of the spectrum of technology. On one side, you had Apple’s launch of the iPad. On the other side, you had Oracle’s press conference detailing the setting of Sun. It occurred to me this morning,…

Here we go. An early, early, early first draft of an agenda. It comes with all of the normal caveats: topics can change, I’ve got people in the wrong format (in some cases), things are all screwy and subject to…

While we’re working on getting a readable first draft of the agenda up (hang tough, it’ll be up shortly), I wanted to list our early sponsors as a way to illustrate how things are beginning to flesh out. So –…

…and the hits just keep on comin… I’ve confirmed two great speakers this afternoon: Joe Stump – CTO of SimpleGeo, and ex-Lead Architect at Digg. Joe’s gonna help us figure out the “geo” side of glue. Chrisofer Hoff – Hoff…

Believe it or not, publishing a first draft of an agenda ain’t easy. I’m getting there, but it’ll probably be a few more weeks before I can even throw a strawman up that I’ll be temporarily satisfied with. That said,…

Context: There was a bit of a kerfluffle last year when some folks started pointing out the lack of diversity at some tech events. I’ve addressed this in the past on the Defrag blog, but it’s worth saying again —…

I woke up and did some re-writing of the Gluecon homepage – so I thought I’d share: As the “cloud” becomes a common platform, web applications still live in a “stovepipe” world. It’s not a question of “should we move…

Here we are in early 2010, and I realized that I’ve been sending some tweets around speakers we’re confirming for Gluecon, but seeing as how you might not be obsessively following my twitter stream, I thought I’d better post something…